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January 6, 2012
Hello Week iPhone/iPad Story App
Touchoo Books has released our children's story "Hello Week" as a neat little book app. And coming soon for Android devices.It's about a little boy who has a one-word vocabulary. That word is hello. He says hello to everything that he sees for one week.
It's only $2.99 at the iTunes store, and it's totally charming. C'mon.
June 18, 2011
HELLO WEEK
Touchoo Books has posted a Q&A with me and Kim Edge-Ambler about our forthcoming children's book-app, "Hello Week." It's a childrens' story told in rhyme with super charming illustrations by Kim. You can read it to your kids from your iPhone, iPad, or other touchscreen device. More details to follow...
June 16, 2011
Flowersday
Celebrating Bloomsday today with a piece up at No News Today called "Flowers of Idleness, which tracks Henry Flower, Bloom's alias, as he appears in episode five of Ulysses, Lotus Eaters. Thanks to Robert Lopez for letting me share this news today at No News Today.
March 29, 2011
RE:Telling
RE:Telling, an anthology of short stories (and some poems) told with borrowed premises, appropriated characters, and stolen settings, is available now from Ampersand Books.
RE:Telling is Matt Bell, Roxane Gay, Molly Gaudry, Daniel Grandbois, Joeseph Riippi, Zachary Mason, Samantha Hunt, Pedro Ponce, Jesse Bradley, Darcie Dennigan, Alicia Gifford, Jim Ruland, Josh Maday, Steve Himmer, Erin Fitzgerald, Curtis Smith, Timothy Gager, Shya Scanlon, Tom LaFarge, Lily Hoang & Kathleen Rooney, Jeff Brewer, Crispin, Best, Peter Conners, Teresa Buzzard, Michael Kimball, Corey Mesler, Heather Fowler, Henry Jenkins, Wendy Walker, Michael Martone, and Blake Butler.
RE:Telling riffs on Shakespeare, cartoon characters, folklore and nursery rhyme, video games, stage drama, mythology, popular novels, movies, television, the Old Testament, and more.
RE:Telling is available at Amazon, Small Press Distribution, and Ampersand Books.
RE:Telling has a Tumblr with contributor interviews and other important content.
RE:Telling has been reviewed (so far) at TimeOut Chicago and Prick of the Spindle.
RE:Telling is at GoodReads, so you can add it to your bookshelf.
Here's a sneak preview of RE: Telling featuring work from Matt Bell, Roxane Gay, Molly Gaudry, and Teresa Buzzard.
Open publication - Free publishing - More anthology
October 25, 2010
"O!" in H_NGM_N #11
"O!" a poem derived from Finnegans Wake by james Joyce, is featured in "From" section of H_NGM_N # 11."O!" tracks the sentences in the novel that end like this: o! It is also part of a collection of Joycean derived texts and poems called Unknown Arts, scheduled for publication with Keyhole Press in February 2011.
Check it out!
September 28, 2010
Small Press Saturday @ Newtonville Books
I'll be reading this Saturday, October 2nd at Newtonville Books. Show starts at 2PM.
Small Press Saturday features Ampersand Books, Dzanc Books, Madras Press, Rose Metal Press, and Small Anchor Press.
Here's the rundown:
Ampersand Books: Benjamin Lowenkron will read from PREACHER'S BLUES
Dzanc Books: William Walsh and Myfanwy Collins will read from THE BEST OF THE WEB 2010
Madras Press: Editor Sumanth Prabhaker will read "A Manual for Sons" by Donald Barthelme, the first Madras Press Classic Reprint
Rose Metal Press: Adam Golaski will read from COLOR PLATES
Small Anchor Press: Joseph McElroy will read from PREPARATIONS FOR SEARCH
Newtonville Books is located at 296 Walnut Street in Newton, Massachusetts.
August 13, 2010
Salem Lit Fest is NOT Witchy
I'll be reading at the Salem Literary Festival on Saturday, September 18th (5PM - 7PM).
It's Quick Fiction's Utter Amazement program at Gulu-Gulu Cafe. The big news is who I'm reading with. Quite a lineup: Steve Almond, Kim Chinquee, Myfanwy Collins, Brian Evenson, and Michael Thurston.
It's in Salem, Mass. But, again, it's not witchy.
June 26, 2010
Money Getting
Been running a serial at The Kenyon Review Blog called Money Getting. It's a verse digest of P.T. Barnum's The Art of Money Getting (1880).Here's a sample of how a verse digest works...Original sentence:
"It is a slavish position to get in, yet we find many a young man, hardly out of his "teens," running in debt."
That sentence digested in verse:
a slavish position
running in debt
So far, seven of twenty-three parts posted: I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII.
June 16, 2010
Bloomsday 2010 Shenanigans
Rejoycing this Bloomsday on the web , June 16, 2010:
- A Blooming at Annalemma .
- A stroll though Dublin with Father Conmee at Artifice .
- A Pounding from Pound and a nine-parted gestation at Big Other
- A stout piece at Keyhole Press .
- A letter to Bloom at Letters With Character , the blog inspired by Ben Greenman's new collection What He's Poised To Do (Harper Perennial). LWC is running as many letters to Bloom as they can get today.
- A salute to Poldy at The Kenyon Review Blog .
MANY...
May 21, 2010
Recent Pathologies on the Web
Some good words on Pathologies from Chris Heavener, publisher of Annalemma:
"Walsh slices his characters thin, then chooses which slice will show you their eventual trajectory."
Read the whole post here.
And J.A. Tyler, author of Inconceivable Wilson and the man behind Mudluscious Press, presents "A Partial Study of these Pathologies" at Big Other:
"...Walsh's Pathologies, in its seventeen micro-fictions, has a clear through-line & a vibrant arc..."
Read the whole post and comments here.
And Timmy ...
"Walsh slices his characters thin, then chooses which slice will show you their eventual trajectory."
Read the whole post here.
And J.A. Tyler, author of Inconceivable Wilson and the man behind Mudluscious Press, presents "A Partial Study of these Pathologies" at Big Other:
"...Walsh's Pathologies, in its seventeen micro-fictions, has a clear through-line & a vibrant arc..."
Read the whole post and comments here.
And Timmy ...
